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Monday, March 2, 2015

The Guardian Newspaper embraces Antisemitic Conspiracies

When I read the article about leaked South
African documents referring to an Israeli conspiracy to dry up the Nile my first reaction was not skepticism or laughter but
outrage.Put aside the logistics for such
an undertaking. (The River Nile is the longest river in the world at 4,300
miles and is shared by eleven countries).

I even understood the “secret” report that
emanated from South Africa.Before the end of the Apartheid regime the
population of South Africa
was officially twenty-two million people with Whites representing 27% of the
total. Post apartheid that total population doubled to forty-four million with
the white group being reduced to just 13.6% of the total.Apparently no government had ever seen the
need for an effective population census. Preventing civil war or a Zimbabwean
style economic and social collapse has meant accommodating prejudice and
superstition, in spite of South
Africa’s recent history. Despite both Arab (Muslim) and Western nations
leading the top ten countries with economic influence in Apartheid era South
Africa and though Israel had very minor economic interests in South Africa during
the apartheid era (well below the top ten export nations) I would even expect
an antisemitic narrative to be a predictable outcome.It is easier to damn a minor irritant for its
imagined crimes than it is to confront a major export partner.What surprises me is that Israel’s Mossad would trust South Africa’s
intelligence service sufficiently to interact with it.

This latest story is reminiscent of Egyptian
and other Arab conspiracies that were laughable, for instance the migrating
bird that was “really” an Israeli spy, at least according to the quality Arab
press.And who can forget the sharks
that were also accused of working for the Mossad?We expect crackpot journalism to be the
hallmark of the fascist press. A story about drying up the River Nile with
genetically modified Israeli weeds (read “Jewish” if you really want to dive into
the sordid world of conspiracy journalism) sounds like the South African
Intelligence Service creating its own version of the Protocols of the Elders of
Zion (which was largely the work of the Russian Secret Police).

I expect the British newspaper, The Guardian,
to be antisemitic. There exists a longstanding tradition in British society
that is hostile towards any display of difference, as a result of which the
urge to conform is enormous.One result
is to foster a characteristic curiosity and disdain for difference that may explain
Britain’s
fascination with eccentricity.At the
same time, the repressive urge to conform has meant that successive generations
of immigrant communities eventually did assimilate into British society.Not by subsuming their peculiar group
characteristics but by culturally “vanishing” (assimilation, not integration).

The Jewish community has mostly survived through
the infusion of successive waves of Jewish immigration and not, by natural
population growth.

That intolerance of difference has been
legislatively marginalized but it has also created ghettos that are virtually
untouchable by law enforcement and are therefore immune to any of the normal
pressures that society would apply to conform.Instead of nurturing a multicultural society, anti-racist legislation
hot-housed mutually antagonistic communities, disabling any pressures that
might have facilitated reconciliation.

A simple example is the anti-racist legislation
that was too hurriedly passed in reaction to the Muslim terror attacks on the London transportation
system that murdered 52 civilians and injured over 700 more people on the 7th
of July 2005).

Nationwide, teachers were exposed to potential
accusations of racism, without provocation. The immediate effect was to silence
any legitimate criticism because of the threat posed by that latent, ever
present threat. A teacher could be
accused of racism and faced suspension from work for a period of up to 12
months while the allegations were investigated.Even if all charges were subsequently found to be false the result would
be that your career was ended.In Education,
the legislation helped to create a perception that there is no smoke without
fire.The Salem Witch Trials of over
three centuries ago spring to mind – how ironic that legislation meant to
protect everyone from being persecuted was exploited by Muslims to terrorize
the rest of us.In one Muslim dominated
school the Imam who taught the Koran to Muslim students told of one child who
threw their Koran across the room and was immediately turned into a Monkey.
This evokes a Muslim antisemitic myth. The science teacher who confronted this
imam (remarkably, all the students believed him) and challenged the story very
quickly understood that to question this story was to invite allegations of
racism.

This is more than simply an unintended
consequence of badly crafted legislation.Instead of protecting us all it has created an atmosphere of fear and
censorship which is exploited by and insulates minority bigots who correctly
understand the virtue that inheres to a group placed in a position of privilege.
Being a protected minority they can virtually do no wrong.I would be surprised if, because of this
legislation, recent, massive, sex abuse scandals involving Muslim pedophile
groups were not encouraged by the reluctance of authorities to investigate Muslim
wrong-doing.

The political Left has never had to come to
terms with the original sin of its creation. Its antisemitism and its genocidal
history arose out of its over-exuberant ideological intolerance of competing
worldviews and its dogmatic, literalist assertion of Right against all others.
Again, this perhaps explains bad legislation as deliberate, ideologically
crafted social Darwinism.

The British Left has always been comfortable
within its polite antisemitic skin.Jews
who practiced obsequious self-flagellation did so because of an ethnic
(religious) affiliation few ever attempted to familiarize themselves with.They were held up as exemplars of what a
‘good’ Jew looks and behaves like.Being
honorary members of the British anti-Zionist Left made them almost
accepted.That societal pressure to
conform to a barely concealed undercurrent of antisemitism exposes its
prejudice when the mainstream Jewish community and their Christian supporters
are less than silent.

The Guardian Newspaper is similar to the New
York Times in enunciating a philosophy around human conflict that is unique in
its focus on Israeli “original sin”.The
philosophy is summed up with the explanation that the Paper will not address
Palestinian racism in any of its writing about the conflict. By its acceptance of an exclusive anti-Zionist,
anti-nationalist agenda the racism of Israel’s opponents is dismissed by
making the claim that when “the Palestinians” have their own state the Paper will
change its attitude towards antisemitism.

This buys into an immoral
intellectual argument that if you uncritically support a bigot and a murderer
they will cease with both practices once you satisfy all of their demands.

It places the victim in the insane position of
being entirely to blame for everything.

The Guardian, through its uncritical support
for an anti-Israel conspiracy has bought into the vein of similar writings
reminiscent of medieval blood libels, rumors of well poisonings and the
spreading of the Black Death.

So I return to the story of Judeo-Zionists (the
Mossad) attempting to dry up the worlds longest river – the Nile.
That a specific allegation can be used to prepare the ground for an Arab attack
on Israel (which following on from the inevitable annihilation of the state’s Zionist
inhabitants through the use of non-conventional weapons) would be justified by
reference to a potential attack on the Nile.

In this case, the Left truly has become the
Nazi Left.

Israel is at war with the Guardian Newspaper.
It is apparent that Israel
is oblivious to this fact. That story about Israel’s
mythical technological endeavors demonizes all Israel and her supporters.

This is not just a Freedom of Speech issue. This
story is not “just” another hoax. We know that once a story is published through
a reputable newspaper website, it becomes universally available for
dissemination.It cannot be removed from
the internet even if it is withdrawn, with apology, from the Guardian website.

When the facade of a semblance of diversity
exists it can be difficult to respond to any threat that materializes with
uniform action because inevitably, complexity requires a nuanced approach. The
Guardian Newspaper has presented itself as hegemonic in its opposition to
Israeli statehood, as hateful in its approach towards Jewish self-determination
in Israel
and as wholly uninterested in any truth applicable to a Jewish State.

War with a hegemonic adversary is straight
forward. The enemy is identified, unambiguous and promoting an agenda that is
without mercy.Israel is at war with the
fascist and antisemitic Guardian Newspaper and it is time it took the written
war as seriously as it takes the hot war against Hamas and similar Nazi
ideologies such as Islamic State (Daesh), Hezbollah and the Islamic State of
Iran.

The People of the Book seem to be reluctant to
internalize the lessons of our recent history. Sticks and Stones can break
our bones, but with words begins the slaughter.

3 comments:

The answer is Israel needs a legal task force that operates internationally and sues people and publishers that write stuff that is inaccurate. The team should show no mercy in relentless pursuit of it's objectives. Imagine The Guardian being sued for a few million! It would send a message to those others who lie about Israel.

The Guardian were forced to correct the statement and acknowledge the error, and I do not believe that the British government would permit the press to be sued over any Aktion against Jews or Zionists!"